Onion juice is a good remedy for the common cold

A runny nose, or rhinitis, is an inflammation of the nasal mucosa. Often, folk medicine recommends onion juice from a cold. It should be noted that rhinitis can be as independent disease, as a manifestation of other diseases of an infectious or allergic nature. It would seem, what could be more harmless runny nose, but doctors recommended to treat it timely, otherwise, a protracted rhinitis can lead to serious complications.

Causes of rhinitis in children

The main cause of frequent colds at the child is a weak immune system. Weakened child's body is sometimes not able to resist harmful microbes surrounding it, especially in autumn and winter. Another common reason can be called a sharp temperature drop, when the child from a warm room, hot, out in the cold street. The cold causes swelling of the mucous membrane, causing its inflammation. The result stands out a lot of mucus, causing a runny nose. If you do not take the necessary measures, runny nose begin to rise up into the region of the maxillary sinus, and then through the connecting channel into the middle ear, causing serious complications. I have the child lays the nose, it is breathing with mouth, refuses food, there is a depletion of the body.

Preventive measures in the cold

If it's cold outside, and the child came in from a walk, first, check if he has warm feet. If they are cold, then immediately fill the basin with hot water, pour a little bit of mustard and put the child in the soar feet. At night you can pour a little bit of mustard powder in your socks. To avoid the appearance of a cold, give the child at night to drink hot milk with honey and butter, add a pinch of baking soda.

At the onset of a cold, try to do without the drug. If the runny nose appeared from hypothermia, drugs rhinitis only reduce symptoms but do not cure. Especially with prolonged use they are addictive. And the frequent use of the immature child's body may be poisoned. Therefore it is best to use traditional therapy.

Treatment of a cold with onions

It is known that the bow with a cold destroys disease-causing microbes, but it should be used with caution, as undiluted it can cause severe skin irritation. Especially if you use it for a child. In addition, using a cold bow, like other components, you need to be sure that the child or adult has no allergies to them.

These recipes are designed more for adults than for children, asthe latter case is necessary to consult a doctor:

1. Preparation of ointments on the basis of onion juice. Mix the root of the cyclamen, onion juice, Vishnevsky ointment, honey and aloe juice in equal proportions. It turns out thick mass, which is placed in the refrigerator. Subsequently the mixture is heated, it is moistened with cotton wool and inserted into each nostril. Leave it for half an hour. To use these swabs to improve the condition.
2. Take one onion, grate on a grater, then pour a glass of warmed vegetable oil. Wrap and leave in a warm place for 7 hours. The oil should be filtered. It should be applied, lubricating the nasal passages. Effective with prolonged and chronic rhinitis.
3. Burn onion peels and inhale the smoke.
4. Prepare a paste of onion or onion juice. Mix it with honey in proportion 1:1. Take 1 teaspoon 3-4 times a day 30 minutes before meals.
5. Onion is very effective inhalation. For this purpose a paste of onion to put in the glass, which is placed in hot water. To make a paper funnel, which is wide part covers the glass. The narrow end is inserted alternately in one and then the other nostril. While onion are inhaled the pair. The procedure takes 10 minutes and is performed up to 4 times a day.
6. This recipe is good for the children. Chop the onion and sauté in a dry clean pan, it needs a little to release the juice. Then pour it with vegetable oil and leave in a warm place for half a day. After the allotted time strain and instilled 1-2 drops into each nostril.
7. If you have perseverance and endurance, it is recommended to bury onion juice in its pure form, 2 drops in each nostril.
8. Onion juice can be mixed with water, so that means not much burned. Such drops can cure even chronic rhinitis. But their action is slow. You should dig in onion juice as often as possible – then the cure will result. Not to irritate, you can add to this tool a little vegetable oil.

Runny nose as a symptom

As already described, a runny nose is not such a harmless disease as it seems. Therefore, you should constantly be asking the child about his condition at the time of a cold. Pay close attention to the secretions from his nose, as they can say a lot.

1. 1. If clear fluid from the nose, you can define rhinitis. Mucus at first too liquid, and then it thickens. The color of it remains unchanged.
   2. If the runny nose remains for a long time snot and purchased the green color with an unpleasant odor, this may indicate sinusitis.
   3. Ifrunny nose is accompanied by constant sneezing, red eyes, it is likely that adenovirus infection.
   4. After bismarckiana pain appear under the eyes and in the frontal sinuses, which means that the inflammatory process progresses to the middle ear. In this case you will need to consult a doctor.

Something about Luke

Bow is a tool that effectively fights bacteria and is a preservative of natural origin. It promotes good appetite and digestion. He also plays the main role in strengthening the body's defenses, especially during the period of increased viral danger.

Onions can treat not only cold, but also gastric distress – it is an excellent deworming agent.

Many people for a long time they treat hypertension and atherosclerosis, and reduced sexual activity.

In addition, onion with honey is useful for bronchitis, coughs, colds, fungal skin lesions. Bypass and cosmetic procedures. For example, the slurry from the bow used for insect bites, as a hair mask, when warts and corns.

Fresh onions can get rid of headaches, and a baked - from boils. In conclusion, it should be recalled that even the common cold requires specialist advice, as it can be a symptom of other illnesses that require serious treatment. Remember that after onion procedures, if the rhinitis is not passed within 3-4 days, you should consult a doctor. But if a child is sick, a visit to the doctor should be mandatory.